“I make things out of things, big things, little things, old things and new things. I like to recycle things, and find new uses for things that have been thrown away. Some things say something about their surroundings, and other things become something else.”

For more than 20 years, David Kemp has lived and worked on the exposed Atlantic coast of West Cornwall – inspired by the natural landscape, and by the remains of the tin-mining industry carried out there since medieval times. Living among the ruins, he collects fragments, piecing together curious connections between past and emergent mythologies and technologies.

No one has ever seen the birdman,
although walkers exploring the wild spaces between the forest trails, sometimes stumbled upon his hut.
Perched on a rocky outcrop,near the top of the forest, his ramshackle shack looked out over the treetops,towards the high peaks of the Lake District.

It has been mild enough recently for a late Spring tidy ,out here at Plannit Botallack.
The workshops & storerooms have been filling up with work, & it,s time to inflict a semblance of order on the chaos.
Here are some photos of some of my workspaces & storerooms.

Over this winter, several sculpture projects have been nipped in the bud, & others severely pruned , due ,perhaps to the “current economic climate”?
Failed planning applications, somewhere higher up the food chain has cancelled others.